VCE: A Foundation for IT Transformation- CLLE

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Nathan Slater & Zane Allcorn

05/07/2013

VCE: A FOUNDATION FOR IT TRANSFORMATION

© 2013 VCE Company, LLC. All rights reserved. VCE CONFIDENTIAL. FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK

STORAGE COMPUTE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION APPLICATION

New Software Investments

New Hardware Investments

Maintaining Operations Cost

SUPPORT TEAMS

VIRTUALIZATION

70% 20% 10%

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TODAY’S IT

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VBLOCK ADDRESSES IT CHALLENGES

Management and Operational Complexity

Environmental and Facilities Costs

Vendor Management Investment Lifecycle Protection (TCO)

Speed to Deliver

SLAs and High Availability for Mission-critical Apps

Vblock Systems simplify and speed time to deployment and ongoing operations.

Maintaining IT Operations: physical and logical design, interoperability, roadmap planning, new feature adoption, upgrades, patches, change management, performance envelopes, compliance.

Business Challenges Operational Challenges Financial Challenges


API Enabled, Converged Management

Integrated Protection and Workload Mobility Solutions

Best-of-breed Technology

Pre-engineered, Pre-validated, Pre-tested

Application Optimization

Life Cycle System Assurance

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VCE DIFFERENTIATION

Customer Experience Fastest Time to Business

Highest Availability

Lowest TCO

Converged Management

Lowest Risk

Highest Performance


STORAGE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

CONVERGED OPERATIONS

COMPUTE

5X FASTER DEPLOYMENT

4X LESS STAFF RESOURCE TIME

83X BETTER AVAILABILITY

3X LOWER COST

IDC White Paper, April 2012, Case Studies of 5 VCE Customers

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VCE CUSTOMER RESULTS


GARTNER NAMES VCE THE CLEAR LEADER IN INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

Integrated Infrastructure

Systems

Integrated Workload Systems

Integrated Reference

Architectures

Integrated Systems Market

38%

27%

35%

Source: Gartner – Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems, 1Q11-2Q12, 30 Nov 2012 G00239623; 6 quarters Integrated Systems spend within the most recent 4 quarters was $3.6B

Integrated Infrastructure Systems Market Share

24%

15% Dell 2%

IBM 1%

57% VCE

HP

Hitachi

Other 1%

Server, shared-storage, and network hardware integrated to provide shared compute infrastructure

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Vblock™ Systems Management Software

NEW

VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 100




NEW NEW

Modular Design

NEW

Applications and Solutions Validation

VBLOCK SYSTEMS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO



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A “right-sized” system to meet capacity, workload, and space requirements

§  Brings the power and benefits of the Vblock System family into a value-focused solution

§  Delivers core IT services for distributed and mid-sized datacenters

INTRODUCING VBLOCK SYSTEM 100


DISTRIBUTED MID-SIZE DATACENTER

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VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 DEPLOYMENTS

VBLOCK SYSTEM 100

NEW

Dev/test and co-location datacenter support

Core IT services (File/print, domain services)

ROBO for Vblock 300 and Vblock 700 customers

(Healthcare, Manufacturing)

Local instance business applications (e.g., VDI, SharePoint, Exchange)

Core mix-workload infrastructure for mid-size datacenters

Business applications with data segregation requirements

(eDiscovery, eArchive…)




VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 USE CASES

Enterprise Remote Office/Branch Office Vblock System 300, Vblock System 700

Business Applications

Vblock System 100

Messaging ERP

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Unified Comm and Collaboration

On Vblock Systems

More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure Health care

Manufacturing Apps

Vblock System 100

Datacenter Vblock System 100


VBLOCK SYSTEM 100: RIGHT-SIZED…



Vblock System 100

Messaging ERP



On Vblock Systems


Manufacturing Apps

Vblock System 100

Datacenter Vblock System 100

… Compute resources, with up to 8 servers per Vblock System 100

… IOPS of 720 to 6K that is well optimized for intensive I/O workloads

... Drives for recovering more usable storage of up to 16TB

… For VDI use cases that support 50 to 200 users

… For messaging use cases to support up to 10K mailboxes

… For collaborative work spaces to support up to 400 SharePoint users


VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 BUILDING BLOCKS

Integrated cloud building-block platform §  Pre-defined fixed configurations §  “Right-sized” to meet capacity, workload,

and space requirements

Ships with fixed configurations and limited options

Best-of-breed equipment from Cisco, EMC, and VMware

§  Cisco C220 Servers* §  Cisco 3750 Network Switches §  EMC VNXe Storage §  VMware vSphere

*A Vblock System 100 DX server can support up to a maximum of 50% bare-metal installation and must have minimum 3 servers configured as VMware ESXi hosts

EMC VNXe 31xx/33xx Cisco Catalyst

3750x Cisco UCS C220 M3

VMware vSphere



VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 COMPONENTS

VIRTUALIZATION COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

2 Models: BX, DX

BX: 3–4x C220 M3

DX: 3–8x C220 M3

2x Catalyst 3750-X Ethernet (iSCSI & NFS)

Nexus 1000v Essentials*

BX: 1x VNXe 3150 Dual (2x1Gbps+2x10Gbps/SP)

DX: 1x VNXe 3300 Dual (4x1Gbps+2x10Gbps/SP)

vSphere

Model BX is delivered in a 24U cabinet and the DX in a 42U cabinet

Logical Advanced Management Pod (LAMP) to host all of software used to manage the system

Infrastructure Management Tools

vSphere Enterprise Plus 5.x

VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations

* To be delivered in a Future System 100 refresh


Technical Decision Maker Deck

VCE Product Management



INTRODUCING VBLOCK SYSTEM 200

A “right-sized” system to meet capacity, workload, and space requirements

§  Brings the power and benefits of the Vblock System family into a value-focused solution

§  Delivers core IT services for distributed and mid-sized datacenters

§  Efficiently handle mixed workload requirements VBLOCK SYSTEM 200


VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 DEPLOYMENTS

DISTRIBUTED MID-SIZE DATACENTER

NEW



ROBO for Vblock 300 and Vblock 700 customers

(Healthcare, Manufacturing)

Local instance business applications (e.g., VDI, SharePoint, Exchange)

Core mix-workload infrastructure for mid-size datacenters

Business applications with data segregation requirements

(eDiscovery, eArchive…)



VBLOCK SYSTEM 200


VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 USE CASES


Messaging ERP



On Vblock Systems


Manufacturing Apps


Vblock System 200 Vblock System 200

Data Center Vblock System 200


Messaging ERP


On Vblock Systems

More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure


IT Dev/Test Co-Lo Datacenter



Messaging ERP



On Vblock Systems


Manufacturing Apps


Vblock System 200 Vblock System 200

Data Center Vblock System 200


Messaging ERP



On Vblock Systems


Manufacturing Apps


Messaging ERP


On Vblock Systems

More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure


IT Dev/Test Co-Lo Datacenter

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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200: RIGHT-SIZED…

… Compute resources with choice of CPUs, processor types

… IOPS of up to 10K that is well optimized for intensive I/O workloads

… Drives for recovering more usable storage of up to 100TB

… For VDI use cases that support up to 450 users

… For messaging use cases to support up to 30K Exchange mailboxes

… For collaborative work spaces support of up to 4K SharePoint users


VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 BUILDING BLOCKS

Integrated cloud building-block platform §  Pre-defined customizable configurations §  Core IT infrastructure for mid-range data centers

Configuration flexibility §  More configuration flexibility than the Vblock System 100 §  Offers maximum compute and storage configuration §  Ability to tailor the system to meet customers’ unique needs

Best of breed equipment from Cisco, EMC, and VMware §  Cisco C220 Servers* §  Cisco 5548UP and 3750 Network Switches §  EMC VNX5300 Storage §  VMware vSphere

VNX 5300

Nexus 5548UP Catalyst 3750x UCS C220 M3

vSphere

*A Vblock System 200 server can support up to a maximum of 50% bare-metal installation

VBLOCK SYSTEM 200


VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 COMPONENTS

VIRTUALIZATION COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

4-12 C220 M3 servers VIC-1225 for converged networking NMP or EMC PowerPath/ VE multipath options

2 Nexus 5548UP switches 10G Ethernet for NAS & Uplinks 8G FC connectivity for storage Flexible customer uplink options (copper/optical, 1G/10G) One Catalyst 3750 switch for management Nexus 1000v Advanced and Essentials (optional)

VNX 5300 array Unified is optional but 4U rack space is reserved FAST Cache is mandatory All other software modules are optional

vSphere Logical Advanced Management Pod (LAMP) to host all of software used to manage the platform Infrastructure Management Tools

vSphere Enterprise Plus 5.x

VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations


VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 COMPUTE

One or two processors

Three CPU types §  E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7GHz, 130w) §  E5-2650-L (8 cores, 1.8GHz, 70w) §  E5-2643 (4 cores, 3.3GHz, 130w)

Five memory choices (1,600 MHz)* §  64 GB (8 X 8 GB) §  96 GB (8 X 8 GB + 8 X 4 GB) §  128 GB (16 X 8 GB) §  192 GB (8 X 16 GB + 8 X 8 GB) §  256 GB (16 X 16 GB)

VIC-1225 for converged networking

ESXi Enterprise Plus with NMP or PP/VE

Can be deployed as Bare Metal with non-virtualized operating system and application configurations

*Memory options are limited to eight DIMMs when only one processor slot is populated

Cisco UCS C220 M3 rackmount server

*Memory options are limited to eight DIMMs when only one processor slot is populated


VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 BASE/MAX CONFIG

Base Max Rackmount Servers 4 12

Unified Eth/SAN Switches 2 x Nexus 5548UP

2 x Nexus 5548UP

Storage Array VNX 5300 VNX 5300

Storage Disk Drives 14–25 14–105

Unified Storage X-Blades 0 2

Management Switches 1 x Catalyst 3750 1 x Catalyst 3750

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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 NETWORK TOPOLOGY

Can support unified storage (block and file) in the same switch

Ethernet connectivity through Nexus 5548UP series switches

SAN connectivity through the same Nexus 5548UP series switches

Compute (4-12 Cisco UCS C220 servers)

Customer network

Network

Storage (EMC VNX 5300)

IP backup SAN backup & common

services

Transceiver choice*

X-Blade X-Blade

Cisco UCS C220 Server

10 G VIC Eth / F CoE

1 GbE interface (management)

Cisco Nexus 5548UP

(10 GbE/8Gb FC)

Cisco Nexus 5548UP

(10 GbE/8Gb FC)

Storage processor

Disk array enclosure

Disk array enclosure

FC / F CoE interface card

Storage processor

FC / F CoE interface card

Cisco Catalyst 3750-X 48 port switch

Standard Optional

Transceiver choice*

FC

FC

6 Gb SAS

6 Gb SAS

* Customer selectable: 1 GbE, 10 GbE, copper or optical.


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ENABLING CONVERGED OPERATIONS

VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations Software

Customer Choice

Management Tools

OPEN API

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